Marcia Biggs:
A typical morning scene in Haiti, children going to school, their uniforms ironed, hair tied in cheerful bows. But this is also an image that is often seen on social media, gangs taking over areas with what look to be children in their ranks.
This is an area at the beginning of the Champ de Mars which sees fighting almost daily, and it can break out at any time. There used to be kids at this intersection, begging, washing windows. Now they have disappeared, leading some to wonder where they have all gone.
Jean Rebel Dorcena, National Commission for Disarmament, Dismantling and Reintegration (through interpreter): The children don’t have anyone looking after them. They’re in the street. When they’re starving, they go to the gangs’ bases. The gangs give them food and afterwards the kids become informants.
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Publish date : 2024-11-22 09:34:00
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